Eugenio Tano (July 4, 1840 – 1914) was an Italian painter. He was born in Marzi, near

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; his father was a painter of religious subjects. Eugenio received his first training in Rogliano, his mother's native town. He later attended the Academy of Fine Arts in

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and, after the unification of Italy, he studied in Florence with

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. In 1860 Eugenio participated in Garibaldi's enterprise in Sicily and the Kingdom of Naples. He lived for many years in

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. At the 1877 Mostra Nazionale of

, he exhibits: ''Portrait of a Garibaldi''; at the 1880 Turin exhibition: ''Priest in Countryside'', and in the 1881 Milan Exhibition, ''L'Arno'', a landscape. At the 1884 Promotrice of Florence, he exhibits: ''Dall' Ardenza ad Antignano''. In 1885, in Milan and the next year in Venice, he displayed an ''Un bagno nascosto''. At the Exposition of Livorno in 1886, Tano sent a ''Portrait of a Garibaldi''. He also painted

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and portraits, including Queen Margherita. Ugo Campisani, Un pittore Calabrese dell'Ottocento : Eugenio Tano. Cosenza: Edizioni Orizzonti Meridionali, 1997.

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